Ring Shout: Practice, Resilience, and Transmission in Place
Event Details
Ring Shout: Practice, Resilience, and Transmission in Place
A Symposium
Friday, April 3rd, 2026 10am
Buell Hall, East Gallery
515 West 116th Street at Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Free and open to everyone, but registration is required. Please CLICK HERE to register
This one-day symposium approaches ring shout as living practice and as method, a way of thinking through tradition, mediation, and meaning in Black music without separating sound from the social worlds that sustain it. The day is built to move, not just to speak, beginning with questions that are both conceptual and practical, tuned to spirituality, dance, and the social work of embodied tradition: How does a form travel across generations without being flattened into shorthand? What holds, and what changes, when it passes through places, microphones, and memories? The day culminates in a live workshop and demonstration by led by members of the McIntosh County Shouters. Throughout, the symposium returns to cultural resilience and transmission, and to ring shout’s capacity to carry place with it—audible even at a distance. Participants include Katrina Hazzard-Donald, Rutgers University Camden; Whitney Slaten, Bard College; Eric Crawford, Morehouse College; yaTande Whitney V. Hunter, Temple University; Candace Miller, The Wallace Foundation; and members of the McIntosh County Shouters. The symposium will come to a close at 6 pm. Attendees are encouraged to continue their evening at a formal concert by the McIntosh County Shouters at Miller Theatre at 7:30 pm.
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